A hospital emergency code typically reserved for natural disasters and mass casualty events was briefly activated at BC Children s Hospital Saturday morning.
An emergency physician at Surrey Memorial Hospital says the hospital's pediatric ER is reaching its breaking point as children and their families pour in seeking help.
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is reporting the same number of people in hospital with COVID-19 this week as the week before, but there are 11 more people in the ICU.
The surge in sick kids has B.C. s Surrey Memorial Hospital seeing quadruple as many patients as their emergency department was designed for, and 100 more kids per day than last year – making it one of the busiest pediatric units in the country.